Spontaneous Combustion of the Soul: Dinosaur Jr. at the Fonda
There’s a call to the rocks. The siren isn’t calling you your doom. It’s calling you to feel the pain of everyone and then feel nothing. The silvery wizard inside
The Three Night Cotillion: William Patrick Corgan at the Lodge Room
Traditionally Southern, a cotillion is a right of passage for young people to display their manners, discipline, and maturity. Now a veteran, legend, and elder statesman of rock and roll,
Dark Entries: Bauhaus at the Hollywood Palladium
Entire schools of music, fashion, art, and world views owe themselves to a single English band known as Bauhaus. The music of which is noisy, wild, sexual, raw, bleak, and
Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: Social Distortion at Five Point Amphitheatre
It has been forty years since Social Distortion burst onto Orange County’s rising punk scene, originating out of Fullerton house parties and small, legendary clubs such as The Cuckoos Nest
Becoming the Night: Substance 2019
Taking every kind of music into account, the genre that best fits Los Angeles has to be post-punk, or better yet, goth. Why exactly? Perhaps it’s the way the shadows
Japanese Day Dream: Shintaro Sakamoto at Terrapin Crossroads
Finally seeing an artist you’ve been following for a decade has a strange, dreamlike feeling and it’s compounded by the film of “otherness” that coats anything and everything about cultures
Take This: Win Two Tickets to Helmet at 1720
Helmet is celebrating their 30 year anniversary with 30 shows and 30 song setlists for each. For fans of this genre-blending and defining band, this tour cannot be missed. People
Penitentiary School: EYEHATEGOD, Negative Approach, and Sheer Terror at Teragram
You might be asking me how much Eyehategod or Negative Approach coverage is enough and even I sometimes think I’ve seen these bands a few too many times but then,
Take This: Win Two Tickets to Pinback at the Lodge Room
Pinback are one of the best bands you could ever see live, with a unique sound that can’t be compared to anyone. In my humble opinion, Pinback never created a
Take This: Win Two Tickets to In Flames at the Observatory
Melodic death metal has never been as satisfying to your ear holes than when it comes out the Swedish masters of the genre In Flames. Numerous classic album helped cement
Taking out the Trash: Municipal Waste at the Teragram Ballroom
Thrash has always been the subgenre of heavy metal to inspire the most partying, whether that takes the form of drinking, moshing, or crowd surfing, the marriage of punk and
Silver Lake Perris: Desert Daze 2019
“Do you think Silver Lake is a ghost town right now?” I heard someone ask during my three day camping trip at Desert Daze. The thought made me laugh, I’m